Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by p38arover

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Today three nuts who have run each of the 47 Melbourne Marathons are in the paper. Ones 70 and they are all running in two weeks. other running trivia is I ran 25km last week and up or down a big hill met my "glutinous maximus" Not Gladiator -Maximus- AKA Russel Crow

I have a PAIN in my butt aka PITA and not running my 28th


Some of you may think I am a PITA at times

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Today three nuts who have run each of the 47 Melbourne Marathons are in the paper. Ones 70 and they are all running in two weeks. other running trivia is I ran 25km last week and up or down a big hill met my "glutinous maximus" Not Gladiator -Maximus- AKA Russel Crow

I have a PAIN in my butt aka PITA and not running my 28th


Some of you may think I am a PITA at times

Wasn't there a movie, "Escape from Sci-Attica"?

This study of the Victorian anti-vaxxers shows us that there are indeed recurrent fears more than two centuries
scare stories, such as an association between vaccination and tooth decay or mental illness-


Victorian Britain had its own anti-vaxxers – and they helped bring down a government



On topic I am almost due for another to cover from the clouds





The vaccine cover XFB, dubbed Stratus, and NB.1.8.1, known as Nimbus

HMAS Vampire - Sydney Martine Museum - Proving amazing facts like how Big sods can fit into bunks that I almost bet you would struggle to fit into

HMAS Adalaide 2 (FFG) Dive wreak that's not doing so well at that "Ensuring diver safety: Ex-HMAS Adelaide Dive Site closure

HMAS Melbourne- May be razor blades? I do think of her when I shave

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Zhe Dai Yu Yang 60001 Converted to a floating fish farm! Nifty and given my snapper/squid effort results in ZIP other than rays I may need a new spear gun and get wet or gulp BUY fish


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Continuing with the naval theme, my grandfather, a canny Scot, coerced a USN bod to part with this, sometime in the '40s.
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Originally Posted by Saitch

Continuing with the naval theme, my grandfather, a canny Scot, coerced a USN bod to part with this, sometime in the '40s.
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I found something similar when I was a young teen.
The inscription read;

Yea though I walk,
Through the valley of death,
I shall fear no evil,
For I am the evillist,
Son of a bitch,
In the valley.

Judging by the cost of engraving in the mid sixties, I would hazard a guess and say it was owned by a Digger, who had it engraved in Vietnam.

Did you know that at one time we where trying to build a nuclear bomb? That and more trivia on found when I was looking for mines and laws in Australia. My speculation that a Diver dying stopping us from that insanity is my conspiracy trivia

NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE just my usual waffle

Australian Uranium Mining history and other bits

Did you know one of the main reasons Australia went with the American F-111 and not the British TSR-2 was that the USA gave us a better deal on the nukes they could carry. Then the Australian government changed and nukes were off the table, which didn't help get the TSR-2 over the line and into production.